Pulling ‘Gone With The Wind’ Was A “No-Brainer”, But It Will Return To HBO Max Because “We Can’t Censor” It, WarnerMedia’s Bob Greenblatt Tells SiriusXM
deadline.comDade Hayes Finance EditorBob Greenblatt, WarnerMedia’s entertainment and direct-to-consumer chairman, called the decision to temporarily pull Gone With the Wind “a no-brainer” but said it will be restored because “we can’t censor these films.”The executive made the comments Thursday in an interview on Sirius XM with Jess Cagle, the former editor of People and Entertainment Weekly. (Listen to an excerpt above.)“I don’t regret taking it down for a second,” Greenblatt said. “I only wish we had put it up in the first place with the disclaimer.
And we just didn’t do that.”Had the film been airing on a linear network, as it often has on WarnerMedia’s Turner Classic Movies, it wouldn’t need a disclaimer because “because they’re often talking about.
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